2nd Amendment needs this adjustment

The Second Amendment to our Constitution is over 200 years old and, in my humble opinion, is long overdue for some badly needed changes.

If the stouthearted authors of this "sacred" 27 word relic could come back and see what technology has wrought in the intervening two centuries of its existence, and the resulting confusion, turmoil and chaos it has caused, I'm sure they would agree with me.

A second look at the language that is literally tearing our country apart today is surely and desperately needed. I have a suggestion: without changing or deleting a single word of the Second Amendment, I would merely add a few. Here's how I would reconstruct it.

"A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, (the procurement., sale., operating speed, capability and capacity of which being completely subject to state and federal legislation) shall not be infringed."

The addition of these 17 words, would put enormous power into the hands of the voting public, state by state, and pretty much out of the hands of the timid legislators who fear the retaliation of groups such as the NRA. These groups would now be forced to fight new rules, advanced by the public to restore some measure of sanity to the issues of gun-control, and I think the NRA would soon recognize the futility of such a war, along with the immense cost to pursue it, state by state.

I can't believe that two-thirds of our states, 34, would not vote yes to such a Constitutional "adjustment," that would eventually ban all sales of AR-15 automatic-type weapons to nonmilitary/law enforcement personnel.

Walt Mars

Campton Hills